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June 4, 2025 • 38 mins

What lessons can marketers learn from Taylor Swift's massive success? 

In today's episode, Alan Hart talks with Kevin Evers, senior editor at Harvard Business Review and author of the book There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift, about the branding and strategy lessons marketers can learn from the record-breaking artist. He reveals what prompted him to write about Swift and the commonalities he discovered between Taylor, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Garcia, The Beatles, and Reddit's true crime communities. 

Kevin explains that since the start of her career, Taylor has created "blank space" for herself in crowded categories through innovative differentiation techniques, like insisting on writing her own songs as a teen girl for teen girls at a time when most hits

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